Haryana Assembly Elections 2024: Dalit and non-Jat voters clearly abandoned Congress in Haryana, the assembly election results showed on Tuesday. The conosolidation of non-Jat votes in the agrarian state handed BJP a comfortable win against the exit poll predictions. The Jats, who form about 27% of Haryana's population, didn't fully back the Congress either, the voting pattern showed, as the BJP was ahead in many seats that are bastions of the community.
However, the results showed that the three Muslim-dominated seats of Nuh, Punahana, and Ferozepur Jhirka rallied behind Congress once again in Haryana. The Election Commission website confirmed Congress candidates running away with dominating wins in all three states, giving BJP no quarters.
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Aftab Ahmed of the Indian National Congress won by a margin of 46,963 votes from Nuh while Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) nominee Tahir Hussain came second. While Congressman Ahmed got 91,833 votes, BJP's Sanjay Singh, who finished a distant third, managed only 15,902. Rabia Kidwai of the Aam Aadmi Party polled 222 votes -- 147 votes lesser than NOTA.
The BJP finished third in Punahana seat as well where Mohammad Ilyas of the Congress won by a margin of 31,916 votes. Ilyas received 85,300 votes while Aizaz Khan of the BJP got just over 5,000 votes (5,072). It was an independent candidate who finished second in Punahana.
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Mamman Khan of Congress registered a dominating win from Ferozepur Jhirka -- polling 1,30,497 votes. BJP's Naseem Ahmed, who finished second only managed 32,056 votes -- conceding a huge defeat of 98,441 votes.
